Very useful Sametime debugging FAQs from IBM

Here is a list of some very useful Sametime debugging articles that we use to help troubleshoot Sametime issues:
Title: Knowledge Collection: Frequently Asked Questions about Lotus Sametime
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg27006515

Title: Knowledge Collection: Sametime with LDAP
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21235610

Title: Knowledge Collection: Notes Instant Messaging
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21139237

Lotus Notes Instant Messaging Tracing
Title: Debug parameter for troubleshooting Notes Instant Messaging issues
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21132612

Client Tracing
Title: How to turn on additional debugging for the Sametime Meeting Room Client and Broadcast Client
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21086819

A/V Tracing
Title: What information should be collected when troubleshooting an A/V issue with Sametime meetings?
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21112070

VP_TRACE_ALL
Community components tracing

Reference:

Title: What is the VP_TRACE_ALL parameter in the sametime.ini?
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21216817

VP_TRACE_ALL + meetingserver.ini
Community components and meeting server tracing

Reference:

Title: Enabling Sametime meeting server debug on AIX/Solaris
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21199177

Meeting Server Tracing/Java

Reference:

Title: How to enable debug for the Sametime Meeting Server
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21159758

VP_LDAP_TRACE=1
Directory/LDAP tracing

Reference:

Title: The Sametime STDirectory service repeatedly stops and restarts itself
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21108485

ST_DDA_US_TRACE=1
VP_DB_TRACE=1
VP_NOTES_THREADS_TRACE=1
VP_US_TRACE=1
VP_STORAGE_TRACE=1
User Storage Tracing

Reference:

Title: Debug flags for Sametime stuserstorage service
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21154988

VP_LDAP_TRACE=1
VPDIR_DEBUG=1
ST_DDA_BROWSE_TRACE=1
ST_DDA_GROUPS_TRACE=1
Directory, Browse, Groups issue tracing

Reference:

Title: Sametime public groups appear empty on a server configured for LDAP
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21177836

POLICY_DEBUG_LEVEL=x
POLICY_MAX_THREADS=1
POLICY_UNIQUE_TRACE_FILES=1
Policies tracing

Reference:

Title: Understanding, configuring and troubleshooting Sametime policies
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21245232

vp_reg_trace=1
vps_reg_trace=1
vps_auth_debug=1
vps_debug_login_msg=1
Authentication tracing